[SOLVED] no audio thru toslink

[agent_kith]

hitting button that says "Set Volume to 100%" doesnt make any change and I dont see red light comming from toslink port - not sure if I every seen red light since I've installed snakeoil - driver problem maybe? maybe easiest way would be complete reinstall and report back tomorrow.

If you don't see a red light, it's likely the S/PDIF output is still muted. If you can, SSH to the machine, and run

Code:

sudo alsamixer

Now press the 'F5' key and go through the list out output. Find one that says 'digital out', 's/pdif' or anything similar, see if you see the text 'MM' undeneath it. If yes, press 'm' to remove that, and now look at the port and check if you see the red light.
 

I've just connected hiface two to synology nas and I have same crackling issue, so it looks like dac is having hard time to decode anything higher than 44.1khz (maybe windows/osx driver is able to downsample according to maximum supported bitrate/frequency?) 

after complete reinstall I'll get back to you.

thank you for your time

Don't think you need to reinstall. Linux is not like Windows or OSX, it will just work.

Probably should have mentioned this earlier: Hiface requires a custom kernel, have you upgraded to that custom kernel yet? See this post, and scroll down till you see Hiface. Download that kernel, install it on your Snakeoil OS computer, and reboot. Refer to this chapter on how to upload a kernel.